http://ada.gov/ - Information and Technical Assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act - new website

Marianna Craig reports that there is a new interpreter agency in Austin that focuses on performance interpreting as well as Deaf produced theater/events. Visual Voice Interpreting, vvinterpreting@PROTECTED, 512-809-0277.

Please join our growing Deaf Blind Chat for drinks, snacks and fun chatting. Every month we see both new and familiar faces, and we welcome signers of all skill level, so tell your friends, family and classmates about us, too!

If you would like sign language interpretation, please contact rosina@PROTECTED at least one week in advance. Volunteer interpretation provided courtesy of ACC students and others.

All classes are about 1 hour long, except where noted. Classes subject to change. Please call first to confirm. Classes are held outdoors under an open air canopy ("The Revival Tent") - please dress for the weather. Arrive early for best seating. You are welcome to bring your own chair. If possible, please park on Bell Drive, adjacent to the Tent.

June 8 at 9 am - Pat Dillon, General Manager of Submatic Drip Systems, and David Becerra, Drip System Specialist, teach us how to "Water Efficiently Using Drip Irrigation."

June 15 at 9 am - Ellen Zimmerman, of Austin School of Herbal Studies and EZ Herbs, presents "Be Water-Wise with Herbs!"

Are you interested in taking a defensive driving course to reduce the cost of your insurance or to dismiss a speeding ticket? Here's the place. TCSDHH will be sponsoring "Texas Friendly Defensive Driving Schools" to teach a class for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Participants. Interpreters will be provided. Please request additional accommodations and complete pre-registration and payment by 5/31/13.

In Blood, Sweat and Cheers, 17-year-old June Davis returns to her old cheer gym, the notoriously competitive Austin Cheer Depot, after an abrupt two-year sabbatical. While some of her old teammates are happy for her return, rival and cheer captain Kennedy Campbell is not pleased. June battles her teammates, her parents, her coaches, her best friend James, and herself to make it to the top...but is being the best worth losing everything?

Circus Girl (SI)
ASL interpreted performance Thursday June 13 at 7:30 pm
The Museum of Human Achievement, Springdale and Lyons-next to The Blue Genie and the Blue Theater, Austin TX 78702
http://www.thehattreetheatricals.com
Ticket prices that night are pay what you can!

Circus Girl takes you on a journey through America during the 1890s—from Kansas City to Chicago to Denver. It is the story of Circus Girl, a young performer who has lived in the circus or vaudeville her entire life. She knows very little about the outside world, and suddenly has to fend for herself in rapidly changing and precarious surroundings. Through the eyes of Circus Girl this challenging new play shows an epic struggle between fantasy and reality that also reflects the problems and turmoils we face in 2013.

The Circus, Sky Candy’s fifth theatrical production, explores the struggles of a turn-of-the-century American circus. The Circus is set in 1890 and follows the story of young girl who gets more than she bargains for when she runs away to join the struggling Piccolo’s Acrobatic Circus Review of the South, featuring the Sideshow and Animal Extravaganza.